Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:10:28AM -0700, Reckoner wrote: >Hi, > >I'm starting my xserver using > > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin XWin -multiwindow >-clipboard -silent-dup-error > >and then I do: > > C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/zsh > >when I do > > % ssh -Y h...@remote.edu > >I can successfully open remote x-windows. > >However, > >If I use mintty 0.91 instead of rxvt as shown below: > > C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/zsh > >when I do > > % ssh -Y h...@remote.edu > >I *cannot* successfully open remote x-windows. > >Note that changing the shell from zsh to bash doesn't help at all. > >Any advice appreciated. > >The appropriate log files are attached. According to your cygcheck output, you don't have a DISPLAY environment variable set. Does performing an "export DISPLAY=:0" before using ssh help? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: gvim tiny font in 1.7.7
Jon, et al -- ...and then Jon TURNEY said... % % On 01/10/2010 11:23, David T-G wrote: % > ... % >When I first started gvim after my install, the font was invisibly tiny % >both for the content and for the menus. [Note that both xterm and rxvt-X ... % % I'm assuming gvim is behaving as if you have a massive DPI, i.e. if you % increase the font size, it does get bigger, but just not big enough to be % readable? Correct. In fact, I dare say it's well-nigh undetectable; I can't even make out any text at all. % % Does 'xrdb -query | grep dpi' output anything? Alas, no; in fact, xrdb -query doesn't return anything at all. % % -- % Jon TURNEY % Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer Thanks again & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt pgphjnevUb43g.pgp Description: PGP signature